# 1841 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
* Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## Events

* 19 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead after colliding with a steamer, with the loss of 123 lives.
* 9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.
* 12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
* 26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
* 19 August - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
* 8 December - The month-old Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, is created Prince of Wales by letters patent.
* date unknown
** Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.
** Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
** Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
** The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.
** Opening of Swansea Museum by the Royal Institution of South Wales.
** Land is earmarked by Welsh immigrants in Ohio for the building of Tyn Rhos Chapel.

## Arts and literature
### New books

* David Owen (Brutus) - Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig
* Welsh Book of Common Prayer (new edition)

### Music
## Births

* 28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (as John Rowlands; died 1904)
* 14 February
** Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
** William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
* 5 April - Robert Rees, singer and musician (died 1892)
* 23 April - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
* 29 April - Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, soldier (died 1925)
* 21 May - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
* 26 June (in London) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur (died 1912)
* 9 November (in London) - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)

## Deaths

* 17 January - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56
* 12 May - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
* 19 May - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42
* 1 May - David Jones, missionary, 44
* 24 May - Thomas Roberts, Llwyn'rhudol, co-founder of Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion, 75-80
* 8 June - John Elias, preacher, 67
* 4 December - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64